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@OgechukwuChime @NigeriaStories This comment is so unfortunate.

@NigeriaStories Like Amoda ogunlere like mercy ojedeji. Forgery is yorubas middle name, it runs in their blood. Tụfịakwa!

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@Qladele @NigeriaStories Negative!!!

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@NigeriaStories This approach to governance that is focused on ripping off citizens amidst massive poverty is quite unhealthy. The current tariff is already neck-breaking as it is. This vampire leadership is just unbearable!

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@Plug08066 @ruffydfire This analogy does not even come close. It was never an official requirement for Obi to be present at the handover. Obi and Trump had different roles relative to the situation being discussed.

@ruffydfire You expect him to attend the inauguration where he was rubbed?.. It is just like calling Peter Obi baby because he didn't attend Tinubu you criticize everyday

Hope the big baby called Trump now understands what maturity is. Trump didn’t attend Biden’s inauguration because he was still sulking but Biden is showing maturity today. Kamala also attended his inauguration, she could have been sulking like he did 4 years ago. The truth is always bitter but we say it

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@SamHai3 @AfricanHub_ While you may be right especially just being human and rational, the physics is almost impossible to avoid. Especially when put side by side the reality of racism across the UK and elsewhere. Why can't we just be humans??

@AfricanHub_ These are just school boys. 'Kiss my shoes' just by that action, you can't say 'racism' 100%. For me, it's just bullying, and the other kid happened to be a different race. But still, a disciplinary action has to be taken on them boys.

Racism in the UK is getting worse everyday. This is what people of African Descent go through everyday. The Mainstream media will never show you this. Your comments on this ...

@AishaYesufu Now that depends on ur definition of good!! I expected some word fencing at least. Cooking and paying bills are also good values ain't they??? They don't just make up the whole package that's all!!!

Cooking doesn’t make you a good woman neither does paying bills make you a good man.

@osamuyi90 @HQNigerianArmy Simply scapegoating that all!!!

Funny, it is only when something shows up on social media that it becomes an offence I challenge the Nigerian Army to audit all recruitments for the past 20 years and see if those exercises met global standards, the problem with our system is ' I don care attitude ' police, Army , Customs etc they are all filled with flaws when it comes to recruitments

RE: CIRCULATION OF VIRAL VIDEO OF APPREHENDED FRAUDULENT CANDIDATES OF 86 REGULAR RECRUITS INTAKE IN LAGOS The attention of the Nigerian Army (NA) has been drawn to a circulating video on social media depicting the arrest of some fraudulent candidates of the ongoing 86 Regular Recruits Intake, who were caught attempting to short-change indigenous candidates of Lagos State through dubious means. The NA wishes to state that the arrest of the fraudulent candidates was a result of the commitment of the NA in upholding a transparent and credible recruitment process in line with its core values of integrity and fairness. The video is a pointer to one of the processes to which the candidates were subjected, in order to ensure only true indigenes of a particular State are recruited, using the slots of that state and not non- indigenes. The video in itself therefore, clearly shows that the process is transparent, as the State Representative, who is a prominent member of the recruitment team has been part and parcel of the process and was given unhindered access to do her job by scrutinizing the candidates’ State of origin, to ascertain the genuineness of their indigeneship claims. The duty of the State Representative is to identify non-indigenes amongst candidates applying for recruitment and this is applicable in other States of the Federation. We wish to inform the general public that the fraudulent act perpetrated by the three candidates who attempted to secure vacancies designated for candidates with Lagos State indigeneship is a serious breach of our recruitment process and will not be condoned. We want to assure the public that a thorough investigation will be conducted to ascertain the extent of these fraudulent activities and to identify any individual(s) or unscrupulous syndicate(s) involved. We are dedicated to ensuring that only the most qualified and deserving candidates are selected to serve in the NA. The NA will continue to work closely with relevant authorities to ensure that those responsible for this misconduct are held accountable. The culprits involved will be handed over to the appropriate prosecuting agency. The NA is committed to upholding the rule of law and ensuring that justice is served in this matter. Consequently, we urge all prospective candidates to adhere to the principles of honesty and integrity throughout the recruitment process, as any attempt to manipulate the recruitment process will be met with the full force of the law. The NA remains resolute in its mission to recruit the best and most deserving individuals to serve our nation. We appreciate the support and cooperation of the public, as we work to maintain the integrity of our recruitment process. ONYEMA NWACHUKWU Major General Director Army Public Relations 3 January 2024

@richeart4u @renoomokri It's not about hate, it's about long years of deficits in trust garnished with mass hardship. People will gradually adjust when hopelessness starts reversing in the right direction.

@renoomokri Nothing can ever be done right in the presence of those that hate you so much. The more you try to explain, the more the keep hating on bitterly.

President Bola Tinubu has his own issues. He is not perfect. But he has delivered on his promise to revive Port Harcourt Refinery by December, and he has over-delivered by providing free or heavily subsidised transport fare for your Yuletide travels. So, what is your excuse for joining Arise Peoples Party to hate on him? #TableShaker

@renoomokri While this analysis is no doubt intuitively pleasant, it nevertheless drowns in the assumption of a universal strategy. What works for Lagos may not work for Rivers. "Differential ecology". Besides the overhang of authoritarian godfatherism is to me just unhealthy!!!

Nyesom Wike is a brilliant political strategist. But perhaps he also needs to learn from Bola Tinubu. Bola Tinubu could have impeached Ambode. He was more in control of Lagos than Wike is in charge of Rivers. He had total control of the Lagos State House of Assembly and the loyalties of most LG and LCDA Chairmen. But he bided his time. Patience bring a virtue, not a virus. He allowed Ambode finish his first term and then denied him a second term. That way, he got what he wanted without rocking the boat. That subtlety and patience is what Wike needs to add to his arsenal. In politics, with tact, you will get your fact. Sun Tzu said, "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." This is something that may have benefited Wike. Pick and choose the place and time of your battle. A Governor is weakest during the transition from one term to the other. Making it the perfect time to strike. #TableShaker

@BOTAD01 There is no perfect way to explain the Nigerian scenario outside this. Our collective conscience is being messed up! Sadly, we are waking up to the making of a vampire social system.

My former neighbor in Ogba relocated to Australia last year. I remember before he left, he said that when he finally moved out of Nigeria, he would never look back. When chief Akanbi's list of delegates surfaced online yesterday, he chatted me up, and we talked about the wastage, inflation, insecurity, and more. We spent almost one hour on the phone, and when we were almost done, I said, "But you told me once you leave Nigeria, you won't talk about the country again"? He kept quiet for a while, and he said "Baba one can't just look away like that. These things are painful." Truth is, as a Nigerian, either in Nigeria or abroad and you still have your conscience intact, and your IQ is functioning well and your mind is yet to be politically manipulated, you will feel sorry for Nigeria. The rate at which these jackals and hyenas in government are devouring the flesh of this country will make every sensible human being cry for her. The poverty in the land is man-made. We are one of the blessed people in the world with every resources we needed to live a comfortable life but devil also planted disasters in our midst in the name of politicians and their allies in civil service commission. Prayers will not fix Nigeria, Nigerians will fix Nigeria when "WE" are ready to fix it, but before then, let us keep crying for the defenseless entity.

@renoomokri Reading through and getting a hang of what led to your comments, it's quite sad that someone would wish anyone dead. Terrible, to say the least. But that said, no region is collectively isolated for evil or good. Let's deal with the individual.

Dear Ada, Thank you for your feedback. Now that I have survived your evil prayers and have left Saint Kitts, what do you think becomes of your words? Do you think they just go away? You guys do not understand how the spiritual works. The primary purpose of words is for creation. Communication is a secondary purpose. And Yeshua taught us in Matthew 12:36 that there is no such thing as an idle word. This prayer will return to you. And you will forget what you said. And when it starts manifesting in your life, you will blame innocent village people. Our entire lives are shaped by three things. Our thoughts, words and actions. You reap only what you sow. Good or bad. You can't escape the retributive justice spiritual algorithm that God has put in place in Genesis 8:22. Job 38:33 says when you understand this law, you can regulate your life on Earth. Look at a particular region of Nigeria where the people cannot control their mouths. Always unjustly cursing, abusing and insulting. The heavens over that region are so polluted that little or no blessings can penetrate. And they keep declining while other regions are progressing. And they have to leave their region in order to progress in regions where the residents use their mouths better. Look at the Happie Boys. See what their words have manifested in their lives. If you cannot learn how to use your mouth wisely from Scripture, at least learn it from the Yoruba. In any case, thank you and have a good day. #TableShaker

@DavidHundeyin @DavidHundeyin the reality is that we will always have people like these within any social system. I don't see an ethical society happening soon in Nigeria. The only worry is the manifold gradation of irrationality they display in their response to others.

I saw someone literally *praying to his deity* for death and destruction to befall me in my mentions yesterday. My crime being that I am apparently seeking the downfall of his "Asiwaju." I scrolled through his profile and realised that just a few days ago, he was here begging for N30,000 to pay his daughter's school fees. I had to pause to reflect. The primary school I went to when I was his daughter's age (Corona Gbagada) has annual tuition that now *starts* from N2m. N30,000 is probably what I would give each of my kids as their monthly pocket money if I had them in Nigeria. Yet here was someone who could not access N30,000 worth of economic value at short notice to pay for the cheap, substandard education his daughter is getting, earnestly and passionately calling on his deity for evil to befall me for doing work that ultimately benefits him as a birth-to-death member of the hoi polloi. Why on earth would such a person look at me and see his enemy? What on earth could inform such a thought process? What was my offence? That I'm hoping to contribute toward building a country where the level and quality of education I got, can be accessible to his (already acutely disadvantaged) daughter without him needing to somehow become a billionaire to do it? I made a snarky comment and blocked him, but I later went back and stared at his profile picture for hours. For an irreligious person like me, it was the closest I have come to staring into the face of Satan himself. Suddenly, the saying "Stupidity is the worst form of evil" took on a new meaning and significance to me. These are the kind of slaves who fought on the side of the confederacy during the American civil war, because they earnestly and genuinely believed that the institution of chattel slavery was just and beneficial to them and those who looked like them, and that their slavesmasters must be protected at all costs against those seeking to end slavery. These are the sort of slaves who would have fought against the Haitian revolution and prayed to the god of their slavemasters for evil to befall Toussaint Louverture for attempting to free them from a lifetime of misery and servitude. Despair.

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@AfricanArchives My goodness, such cruelty.

70 years later, his innocence was finally proven by a judge in South Carolina. The boy was innocent, someone set it up to blame him for being black. May his innocent soul rest in power.

On this day in 1929, George Stinney Jr., was born. He was the youngest person executed in the US in the 20th century. He was so small they had to stack books on the electric chair. Due to no evidence, his conviction was vacated 70 years after his execution!   A THREAD!

@AfricanArchives Despite being a military leader, Sankara epitomised the beauty of leadership that is widely missing across Africa today.

36 years ago today, Thomas Sankara, a revolutionary African leader, was assassinated by French imperialists. Sankara drove out French imperialism from Burkina Faso and withdrew from IMF and made the country non-reliant on foreign aid. He was assassinated in a coup led by his close ally, Blaise Compaoré supported by French imperialists As far as African leadership goes, Thomas Sankara was cut from a different piece of cloth. Here are some of his accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87): – He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks. – He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987. – He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification – He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid – He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education. – He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights – He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers. – He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets. – He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient. – He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.” – He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting – In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country). – He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects. – He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes. – As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer. – A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard. – He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity) – When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.” – An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself 🖋️if you love our content, please consider supporting our page on AfricanArchives.Support (follow the ko-fi page too for weekly posts roundup)

@HaadiJimoh @atiku Nsogbu!!!

@atiku Leave prof alone. He will rest well. How far Chicago result? You don see ham?

It is with sadness but submission to the will of God that I received the news of the passing away of Prof. Umaru Shehu (CFR). Prof. Shehu was a towering figure not just in Nigeria but in the global academic community. It is worthy to note that Prof Shehu, whose glorious career spanned several decades and across many universities, was a one-time Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was also Northern Nigeria's first professor of community medicine, Nigeria's first emeritus professor, the first president of the Nigerian Academy of Science, and a one-time editor of the British Medical Journal, among others. The distinguished Prof. Shehu was an erudite scholar and a source of inspiration for members of the global academic community whose exit would create a huge void. While I commiserate with members of his family, the Government and people of Borno State, the Borno Elders' Forum (BEF), the University of Nigeria Nsukka and the global academic community to which he belonged, I pray that Allah, the benevolent and the merciful will forgive his shortcomings and grant him eternal peace. -AA